Environmental policy lacks targets and deadlines - PL

All government entities should be involved in the implementation of the National Environmental Policy for this to be a holistic document, the PL's Environment spokesman, Leo Brincat, said this morning.

Addressing a news conference he said that policy lacked targets and deadlines and the few it had were due in the next legislature.

This meant that the present government was failing to make itself accountable.

A Labour government, Mr Brincat said, would take stock of the existing environmental situation and establish some sort of regular monitoring and review system to draw up benchmarks.

Two environmental key issues Malta needed to face, he said, were air quality and environmental health.

The PL, he said, had never shirked from taking difficult decisions in terms of the environment and it would continue to do so in the future.